Childhood and spatial justice: Inter and intra-neighborhood inequalities in the appropriation of the city by children from Curitiba

• Autor(a) principal: Fernandes, Sonia Maria
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Ferreira, Valeria Milena Rohrich
• Tipo de documento: preprint
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: SciELO Preprints
• Texto Completo: https://preprints.scielo.org/index.php/scielo/preprint/view/3891
• topic: Criança; BAIRRO; CIDADE; ELIAS; DESIGUALDADE SOCIAL; child; neighborhood; CITY; ELIAS; SOCIAL INEQUALITY

This study analyzes if there is inequality in the spatial experiences of children depending on where theylive in the city and neighborhoods. It is a quantitative research study in which we analyzed 1060questionnaires answered by families from 27 local schools in Curitiba, distributed in the nine regionalcoordinations at the time. The data were analyzed based on authors from sociology, urban sociology andgeography. We observed that children who lived in the central-northern region of Curitiba and in the centralregions of neighborhoods had more access to consolidated leisure and cultural places, because they eitherlived near them or it was easier for them to go to these places (among other issues related to class, gender,race, time at the current neighborhood, family geographical origin). It demonstrates both a “residencyeffect”, responsible to generate opportunities, and spatial mobility that, as capital, pushed diverseexperiences in the city. For children who lived in the poor and in the outskirts of the neighborhood and,further, lived in south or extreme south Curitiba (when inter and intra-neighborhood data are crossed), theneighborhood did not present itself as a resource, but as a restriction, and spatial mobility seemed to be ascarce urban capital. The configuration was one of non-social mixture among children who lived in differentparts of neighborhoods and the city. The city proved to be spatially unfair and the neighborhood presenteditself as a model, teaching superior positions and status to some children and subalternity and sedentarinessto others.